He had installed two of the earliest automatic garage-doors on record, powered by ancient Sears solid-state technology, and they worked fantastically for a decade or so.

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The ancient Hindu gathering takes place in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, attracting tens of millions of people.

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In 2008, the country declared a state of emergency at the site of the ancient Roman city buried by an eruption of the Vesuvius volcano in AD 79.

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In short, a business that is already outside normal anti-trust law (thanks to an ancient ruling that treats each game as a discrete activity within a single state, and thus exempt from the laws of interstate commerce) would become even more like a cartel.

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Sophisticated information, climate-control and fireextinguishing systems (remember, the ancient version is said to have burned down) complete the picture of a state-of-the-art institution.

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Not only is Oahu's largest temple located nearby at Pu'u o Mahuka Heiau State Monument, but so are the archeological remains of some 78 ancient religious sites and shrines, as well as fishponds, and a waterfall and pool where you can swim.

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Thomas Nagel, a distinguished American philosopher, once remarked that to say now that consciousness is a physical state of the brain is to be in the position of an ancient Greek who proclaims that matter is energy: what he says is true, but there is no understanding of how it can be true, no framework into which to fit the discovery.

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Mr Clegg said a route in central Sheffield would have cut through a 4, 000 home community housing development, the state-of-the-art Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham and a stretch of ancient woodland.

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The state-run Anadolu Agency said the body of a woman was discovered Saturday evening near the remnants of ancient city walls and that police later identified it as Sierra's.

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